News: April 2007

ANOTHER MONTH FOR GOOFING OFF

No extra tours set for April, but if you hang on till May there’s a walk every Sunday in the month. Don is kind of enjoying his thirtieth anniversary year so far, and while for walking the walk it doesn’t look like he’s doing much, he is at work on a new edition of the Dashiell Hammett Tour guide book, excellent for use if you end up in town in a month like this month when there’s no guided gumshoeing slated for the mean streets.

SPEAKING OF 30th ANNIVERSARIES

The first of several books or chapbooks planned for publication this year is almost ready to roll — Yours for Faster Hippos: Thirty Years of “Conan vs. Conantics.” Yeah, it has been three decades since Don’s now-classic essay on the Lancer Conan series first saw print, and this booklet collects that one along with a sequel about the Bran Mak Morn pastiches, plus commentaries on the essays and the era in which they were written. A Cimmerian Library chapbook, limited to 100 numbered copies — if interested, get your order in fast.

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In 1977 Don Herron began leading The Dashiell Hammett Tour, now the longest-running literary tour in the nation. On this site you’ll find information on current walks — dates, where to meet, arranging tours by appointment — plus a hard-boiled blog with news, reviews of books and film, and a dash of noir.